another christian hypocrite caught with his pants down.

Hey General Petraeus, Howâs That âSpiritual Fitnessâ Stuff Working For You?

November 13, 2012 at 12:57 pm Chris Rodda

I hate hypocrites. And the first word that came to mind when I heard about David Petraeusâs extramarital affair was âhypocrite.â

One of the big issues weâve been dealing with for several years at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is the militaryâs push to make our troops âspiritually fit.â Thereâs the mandatory Army-wide âSpiritual Fitnessâ test, spiritual fitness concerts, spiritual fitness centers, and lots of other spiritual fitness events and programs to keep our military âspiritual.â But while the military insists that âspiritual fitnessâ does not mean religion, it does. All of this spiritual fitness stuff, which the military spares no expense on, is just a cover to push religion, and particularly evangelical Christianity. The spiritual fitness concerts always have evangelical Christian performers and most of the Armyâs Strong Bonds events are really just evangelical Christian retreats.

And whatâs one of the big goals of all this âspiritual fitnessâ stuff? Strong marriages, of course! And who was a big proponent of this âspiritual fitnessâ stuff? Yeah, you got it â General David Petraeus.

Gen. Petraeus first came on MRFFâs radar back in 2007, when we were looking into the completely unconstitutional practice of soldiers being forced to attend mandatory Christian concerts during basic training at several of the Armyâs largest training installations. Thatâs when we found Petraeusâs photo and endorsement of these concerts on the Eric Horner Ministries website, praising Hornerâs military base concerts.

Then, in August 2008, Mikey Weinstein, the founder and president of MRFF, noticed a half-page ad in the Air Force Times for a book by Army chaplain Lt. Col. William McCoy. Chaplain McCoyâs book, Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, a manual promoting Christianity and asserting that non-religious service members had no defense against sin and could therefore cause the failure of their units, was endorsed by none other than Gen. Petraeus, whose blurb on the bookâs cover read: âUnder Orders should be in every rucksack for those moments when Soldiers need spiritual energy.â This completely inappropriate endorsement of a book that denigrated the 21% of our military who donât happen to be religious led Keith Olbermann to name Petraeus one of his âWorst Persons.â

But not everybody found Petraeusâs eagerness to promote religion to be inappropriate. In November 2011, Army Chaplain (Col.) Brent Causey, who had been the top chaplain to Petraeus in Afghanistan, told the Baptist Press that âGen. Petraeus played a leadership role in stressing the importance of spirituality,â and that it was âa reflection of Gen. Petraeus and his leadership in placing importance on spiritualityâ that â85 percent of our leadership were active in dynamic Bible studyâ and so many were âmaking first-time commitments to Christ.â

In your world, Reverend Free, He should feel no guilt for what he had done.

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why do you say that. guilt should be reserved for those times when you do harm.
not because some invisible guy in the sky might be unhappy you broke one one of his rules. i think its the mentality that you always have a "get out of jail free card"that gets christians in so much trouble.